Trouble with CAPTCHAs and Freeform
Development and Programming
I know that you can use CAPTCHAs with Freeform (I have done it before), but for some reason it’s not appearing right now. In the control panel, these are all the preferences I have set to yes: • Enable Membership Captcha • Enable CAPTCHAs for Tell-a-Friend and Contact emails • Require captcha with logged-in members?
My code for the CAPTCHA is like so:
{if captcha}
<strong><font color="#FF0000">*</font>For security, enter the word you see below</strong>
{captcha} <input type="text" name="captcha" maxlength="20" style="width:140px;" />
{/if}If I take out the CAPTCHA conditional a CAPTCHA image does show up, but you can submit the page without filling it in. Any ideas why this isn’t working? I am running EE 1.5.2 and Freeform 2.5.2.
Hi, james - if you do not get an answer here you might like to try over at Solspace’s forums, which he put up recently. =)
good idea
check that your captcha image folder has the correct permssions. EE needs to be able write the image into that folder so try changing it to 777 and see if that helps.
that directory does have 777 as its permissions. and like i said, if i take out the conditional, a CAPTCHA image does render. but it doesn’t make it a required field for submitting the form. you could leave that field blank and the form would still submit.
is it writing the images into that folder? if not the path to the CAPTCHA folder may not be correct. Prior to 1.6 this was set in config.php. If you have 1.6 it is in CAPTCHA preferences in the CP.
If you have permissions set and the CAPTCHA image is writing correctly to the folder then I’m totally lost!
Good luck.